On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Robert Borowicz wrote:
OK I went out and got myself a couple of Cyclades Terminal servers (asc32's) and love them.
But I haven't figured out how to send a "Stop A" or "L1 A" on the Suns to them. Has anybody here got some tricks to do that on your Cyclades? I wrote their support about "ctl-alt-del" and they summarily told me it was NOT possible on a serial device.
A Terminal server doesn't send key codes but character codes. For example, it isn't possible to send a single 'shift' key either because the key 'shift' has no character code by itself.
However, for a Sun, there is an equivalent to "Stop A" or "L1 A" on a serial console, which is the BREAK signal. This isn't truly a character code but can also be sent via a serial interface.
If you access a Cyclades Terminal server with telnet you can use the telnet command 'send break' to issue a BREAK signal. I.e. first escape out of the running telnet session with ^] and then type 'send break' followed by return.
Greetings,